Alright so. I have fucked my taxes up before. It was the year of no jobs and I cashed out a 401k to make my car payment and then forgot to report that as income.
Here’s what happened:
I got a bill from the IRS and had to pay what I owed plus a little extra for interest cause I was paying late.
That’s it.
The lessons here:
1) The IRS will not call you. Anyone calling saying they are from the IRS is a scammer.
2) The IRS isn’t gonna take you to court if they can solve the problem with one letter.
3) Accidentaly fucking up on your taxes if you made a good faith effort to file correctly isn’t illegal. To get you for tax fraud they have to be able to prove you did it on purpose. Hence why all I got was a bill. They knew that I could reasonably claim to have fucked up accedntally and as long as I paid up they did not care.